Abia will achieve MDGs in 2015 —Orji Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State has said that the Millennium Development Goals, MDGs, are achievable in the state by 2015, the government, haven set in motion the process of achieving it through different projects that have direct impact on the people. The state government in collaboration with the office of the special assistant to the President on MDGs yesterday launched three goals to impact on the lives of the less privileged and the vulnerable people. Speaking at the ceremony in Umuhia entitled, ‘Integration of MDGs Into the State Development Strategies’, Orji described the scheme as one of the cardinal points of his legacy projects aimed at touching lives of the vulnerable ones in the state in addition to his youth empowerment programme. The governor said his government keyed into the Nigeria MDGs conditional grant scheme in 2007 and has since implemented a lot of the programmes in the urban and rural areas in the fields of health, education, environment and other areas, insisting that Abia is capable of achieving the MDGs in 2015. He said the grants to agro-based cooperatives, village health workers and conditional cash transfers are geared towards eradicating poverty in the state and commended President Goodluck Jonathan for introducing innovative schemes in compliance with the dictates of the United Nations proposals on the programme. He said the state was equally committed to achieving the targets as his government has built 710 health centres to provide Abia people with basic amenities in rural and urban centres in the state, including modernised schools, organise rural farmers into registered cooperatives as well as subsidised farm inputs, fertilisers, insecticides and agric loans. The governor noted that the village health workers will help improve the health care delivery of the citizenry, while the conditional cash transfer would target the rural poor especially families with children. The agro-based cooperatives will also help to create more jobs. Earlier, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on MDGs, Dr Precious Gbeneol, represented by Mr Dennis Harry, said 189 countries were participating in the programme, with Nigeria implementing its own at the three tiers of government. The Executive Secretary of the Abia State Planning Commission, Mrs Adanma Iheuwa, noted that Governor Orji has paid the counterpart fund for the programme since 2007, stressing that the three MDG activities launched in the state would impact on the lives of the people, especially the grants to agro-based cooperatives, village health workers and conditional cash transfers. She said the state government has so far paid N3 billion counterpart fund since 2007.

Abia is a comedy state, MDG in 2015? With the deplorable state of infrastructure in the state?

is t-shirt for all one of the MDGs?

This man T.A Orji is just so dense and annoying

Best of luck.

This slow poke of a gov. is a joke oo.